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What troubles the poor is the money they
can't get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can't keep.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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*[T]he origin of all wars
is the pursuit of wealth.
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-The character Socrates, in Plato's
Phaedo
66d
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*Now, can there be a worse
disgrace than this-that I should be thought to value money more than the
life of a friend?
(kaitoi tis an aischiôn eiê tautês doxa ê dokein chrêmata peri pleionos
poieisthai ê philous; ou gar peisontai)
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-The character Crito, in Plato's
Crito
44c
Benjamin Jowett, trans.
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~If you ask me to name
the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose- because it contains
all the other- the fact that they were the people who created the phrase
"to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words
before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized,
begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were
the first to understand that wealth has to be created.
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-Fransisco D'Anconia, a hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Pt. Two : Either-Or, Ch. II, "The Aristocracy of Pull"
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Not he who has little, but he who wishes
more, is poor.
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-Seneca
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Money will buy a pretty good dog but it
won't buy the wag of his tail.
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-Henry Wheeler Shaw
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